On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 4:42 PM Thiede, Christoph <
Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> Hi Ralph,
>
>
> nice idea. I'm currently refactoring all the Inspectors
>
Please consider bringing back functionality for Inspectors and Explorers to
show class side variables then :-)

Best,
Karl





> (I hope we can review them soon, and I wish to commit them into the inbox
> ASAP), and I already implemented the same idea. Coming soon :-)
>
>
> Best,
>
> Christoph
> ------------------------------
> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von Ralph Boland <rpboland at gmail.com>
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2020 22:49:29
> *An:* squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> *Betreff:* [squeak-dev] variable assignments button/hotkeys (again)
>
> Not long ago I posted about the variable assignments button.
> It generated an interesting discussion but I don't think in the end it will
> result in any change to the operation of Squeak.
>
> Let me make a slight variation on this discussion.
>
> In the Inspector/Debugger the instance variables of  the class being
> inspected are displayed in a window and any one of these variables can
> be selected/inspected.
> Then using a menu or hotkey one can invoke:
>          StringHolder>>browseVariableReferences
>               or
>          StringHolder>>browseVariableAssignments
>
> These commands bring up a selection window where one chooses one of the
> instance
> variables of the class of the selected variable.  Then  one of the
> methods above is invoked
> on the instance variable you chose.
>
> This was counterintuitive to me so I added two new menu-items/hotkeys:
>
>         ('selected variable references... (u)'
> browseSelectedVariableReferences)
>                      and
>         ('selected variable assignments... (A)'
> browseSelectedVariableAssignments)
>
> These commands act like the cooresponding previous commands except that,
> instead of bringing up a selection window for the user to select the
> variable to use,
> the selected variable of the class being inspected is used (and the class
> being
> inspected is used instead of the class of the selected variable).
>
> This feature is more intuitive to me and I have found it quite useful.
>
> I have attached the necessary code as .st files in case anybody would like
> to
> try it out.  These are filed out from Linux but I assume they load as
> is to Windows or Mac.
> Feel free to make any changes you feel necessary and if it gets added to
> the
> next version of Squeak, great!
>
> If you try it out let me know what you think.
>
> Thanks for reading
>
> Ralph Boland  rpboland at gmail.com
>
>
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